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Out of the North By: Howard V. (Howard Vigne) Sutherland (1868-) |
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of the NORTH
[Illustration]
HOWARD V. SUTHERLAND
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OUT OF THE NORTH [Illustration: JOAQUIN MILLER] OUT OF THE
NORTH
By
Howard V. Sutherland
With a Foreword by
Joaquin Miller
[Illustration]
New York
Desmond FitzGerald, Inc.
Mcmxiii
Copyright 1913 by
DESMOND FITZGERALD, INC.
To FREDERICK H. RANDALL
CONTENTS
Page
Frontispiece, Joaquin Miller, Dawson, Y. T.
Foreword by Joaquin Miller
The Northern Light 1
In Winter 2
Lyric 3
Dark Days 4
The Unanswerable 5
Vain Dreams 6
December 7
The Unassuageable 8
Father Judge S. F. 9
The Light o' Love 10 11
Two Quests 12
The Return of the Sun 13
Klondyke Roses 14
A Song for the Return of Birds 15
The Forest Cotillion 16
The Spruces of the Forest 17
The Wild Lover 18
Homeward Bound 19
Approaching Night 20
FOREWORD
Songs from a far away world; a cry from another sphere. To those of
us who once experienced the still and pitiless cold, a cry terribly
suggestive of the horror charged gloom, of the icy silence as
unbroken as that of unfathomable deeps, of the stern and
uncompromising individuality of a disturbed and vengeful North. Yet one is also reminded that, even in the Klondyke, in due season
the brooding spruces are awakened from slumber by the songs of
happy throated songsters, that the melancholy of the forest is
brightened by gay flowers. The weight is then lifted from men's
hearts; singing is heard in the cabin, and the sound of laughter on
the trail. When the mighty Yukon is open to the Behring Sea, the far
North is in touch with the world and men are glad. But the Arctic summer is short lived. The days of the bird and the
flower and the rippling creeks are numbered. Soon the sky turns grey,
the wind chants the sun's requiem, the snow falls; and then returns
the cold, the gloom, the feeling of isolation, the indescribable
terror. I heard these songs sung in the Arctic, the singer at my side these
songs of nature, songs of hope, home, heart. They seem a part of my
life. I heard them as the cry of a lone bird in the vast silence of
eternal snows. JOAQUIN MILLER
THE HEIGHTS, CAL.
Nov. 15th '99
The Northern Light
Who drapes that mystic veil across that everbrooding sky?
Who hues it with a soul of pearl? Who draws it to and fro?
Who breathes upon it with the breath that makes it glow and die,
Lighting that crystal river, those mountains cowl'd with snow?
In Winter
Beneath the snow the mosses sleep
Amid the forest's silence;
Above, the stately birches keep
Unbroken vigils. The spruce trees dream of summer hours
And birds that carrolled sweetly,
Of gentle winds and smiling flowers
That died too quickly.
Lyric
Tell me, tell me, gentle stars,
Ever watchful, ever bright,
From your stations in the sky
Do you see my love to night? White the snow beneath my feet,
Whiter far her holy breast;
Peaceful are the mighty woods,
But her eyes are soft with rest... Continue reading book >>
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